Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — Page 3

Silence

CHAPTER X—Continued. The quick, sharp stroke or a Kicherflen hall bell—Roderick had started at the long familiar sound, and even changed color a little. But it was no visitors, only the post “Just business—Mr. Maclagan, our lawyer. He might have written sooner, If only to apologize for finding us such a wretched ‘flat’ instead of the furnished house I ordered.” And Roderick, looking first disappointed, then vexed, was going apparently to tear up the letter, but meeting Silence’s eyes, he stopped, and passed it over to her to read. “It is such a comfort to me that I can tell you everything,” he said, tenderly. “You are sure never to be vexed or cross, or hurt—oh, my darling!” If she had been either of the three, that last word, and the tone of it, would have healed all. Yet the letter, read aloud, was a little hard to bear; for both. “ ‘Dear Sir,’ (he used to call me dear Mr. Roderick; he has been our man of business these forty years): ‘Perhaps you were not aware that the furnished house you wished me to hire would have swallowed up half your income In mere rent, so I took the liberty of getting something more advisable, which I hope will please you, during the time that Blackball is being finished. I for warded the address, as desired, to yoil' three sisters here, and to Mrs. Jardiite In England. My wife will do herself the honor of calling on young Mrs. Jardine. I wonder how the old lady 4111 approve of that?’” “Of my being called Mrs. Jardine, or of Mrs. Maclagan visiting ihe, dols he mean?” said Silence, with her smile of ’ gave simplicity. “It is a pity fir the ,ady to come, if she fears to drplease your mother,” added she, witWfyslight sigh, which went to her hK/band’s very heart “The ‘lady,’ Indeed!” said hi, bitterly. “Oh, my mother does not mow her. She does not belong to our fit at all. Sier calling upon my wife isquite unnecessary, rather a liberty.’/ “Had you many friends.here? Is it I W’ho have lost you them?” asked Silence, mournfuly, and tften looked sorry she had said it. “Mj husband, I did not mean to regret; ?nd it is too late to suffer you to regret We can not alter anything now.” “We would not if we could,” cried Roderick, passionately. “We know, if no other human creature does, how happy we are, how entirely we belong to one another.” “Thank God!” ■ “I know now, I have found that blessing which my fatheri said was the greatest any man could get, a sweet-temper-ed wife,” cried Roderick, fondly, as they stood together at the window, watching the down. “Mamma was iright And papa rovwd lyy„ J we» W not exactly as you love me, because lie had loved some one else in his youth; she told me that herself, one day. Still, he entirely respected and trusted her; they were very happy In their way. But, oh!” She suddenly turned to her husbffnd with such a look in hereyes—a look that none but he had ever seen or would ever see. “My first love, my last love! God Is good to have let me marry you.” “I am very cross to-day, Silence, and I know it”

“Yes, so do I,” she said and smiled. “But, if you know it, it is half conquered. Go and take a good walk, and walk it off, as in the days when you were in love, you know.” “As If those days nad ended, or ever would end!” answered Roderick, parting her hair and looking passionately down into her eyes. “My good angel! But don’t you see how much of the devil I have in me still? How do you mean to make me good?” “I mean us to make one another good, she answered. “My mother used to say”—it was strange and touching this way she had now of speaking of her mother, as if not dead, but only absent somewhere, and still mixed up with all their daily life—“my mother said, it is better to use one’s feet or hands than one’s tongue when one la vexed about anything. Therefore, go.” Roderick went, and his wife stood watching him down the rainy street with eyes he saw not, and a heart that in its deepest depths was, even to him, not wholly known—or shown. think, though you had never been mine,” she murmured, “so long as you w/re yourself, I would have loved you ji/st the same. But, since you are mine -4oh, my love; my love!” / Roderick came back in quite a cheernil mood. “My walk has done me go d, ; bite of the rain. And I have actually I found a friend—Tom Grierson, lately Hnarrled too. He and his wife are going Ito the coast the day after to-morrow, / but they insist upon ‘making up a par- / ty’ (that is the phrase, love) for us to- / morrow. She will call first, and invite j you with due ceremony. And you shall wear your wedding dress, and the diamonds Cousin Silence left to my future wife. Little she thought it would be another Silence Jardine! You will look so charming, and I shall be so proud. We must go.” “Must we?” With the quick Intuition, the instinctive thought-reading, learned by those who deeply love, and only those, Roderick detected at once the slight hesitation. “Is it this?” he said, with a glance at her black dress. “Do you very much dislike going?” I “I dislike nothing if you like it, and It seems pleasant and good to you.” “Thank you, my darling. Yes, this will be pleasant, I think, and good also. The Griersons are among what my family”—he rarely named his mother now—“call ‘the best people in the glace.’ Excellent people, too; ■intelli-

gent cultivated. I like them, and so will you; old Mrs. Grierson especially.” “Do they know anything? About me. I mean.” “I cannot tell; I did not ask. You see. I could not ask,” added Roderick, clouding over. But immediately he drew his wife close and kissed her fondly. “It does not matter either way. Never mind, love. We will go—and for the rest take our chance. We have done the deid, we are married. No human being can ever part us more.” Still, with a curious foreboding of what might come, after the note of invitation and apology which, to Silence’s evident relief, arrived next day, instead of Mrs. Grierson herself, Roderick helped his wife to choose her “braws” for this first appearance in the world—such a different world from the Innocent monde of Neuchatel! then he left her to her toilet, and sat reading, or trying to read, till she appeared. Not exactly the angelic vision of her marriage morning; “a spirit, yet a woman too.” Very womanly, if not very fashionable, for the white dress was high round her throat, and the round soft arms gleamed under a semitransparent cloud instead of being obtrusively bare. She belonged to that class of beauties who, owing all their charm to expression, only look well when they are happy. A. disappointed life might have made her quite an ordinary girl all Jier days; but now, wnen leaning on her young husband’s arm, she entered the Griersons’ drawing-room, there vas such a light In her eyes, such a tender glow in her cheeks, and about her whole bearing that quiet dignity, ease and grace which, to natures like hers, only come with the consciousness of being loved, that very few, regarding her, would have hesitated to exclaim, “What a sweet-looking woman!” Roderick saw the Impression she made, saw indeed, for the first few delightful minutes, nothing else; until ’turning suddenly he perceived sitting close by, splendidly dressed and surrounded by quite a little court, his sister Bella, Mrs. Alexander Thomson. With a bow to his sister, a mere formal bow, as to any other lady, he drew his wife’s arm through his, and they passed on to the other end of the room. It was a regular Richerden dinner, such as both had been familiar with from their youth upward, but Roderick felt like a ghost revisiting the wellknown scenes. A not unhappy ghost certainly, in spite of Bella sitting there. Through all the dazzle of lights and clatter of voices (how loud everybody talked, and how sharp and shrill the Richerden accent sounded!) his eager ear listened for the occasional lowtoned words spoken with a slight foreign Intonation, and his eye rested tenderly on the fair, calm face of his wife. She was evidently neither shy nor strange, but perfectly dignified and self-possessed. He wondered if Bella saw her. “My husband seems charmed with your wife; I shall be quite jealous directly,” said his hostess. “Where did you fina her? She looks different from our Richerden girls. Is she Scotch?” “Of a Scotch family, but Swiss born. We were married in Switzerland. Her father was my father’s second cousin, and her name was Silence Jardine. You must have heard of it before, Mrs. Grierson ?” And Roderick turned to a gentlelooking old lady on his other hand, aunt to the young people, whom he had told Silence she would be sure to like.

“I remember your father’s cousin, Miss Jardine. And your wife is her namesake? What a curious coincidence! But, I understood However, one never hears quite the truth about love affairs; so, no matter,” added the old lady, stopping herself. “All’s well that ends well. Happy's the wooing that’s not long a-doing.” “Ours was fully six months a-doing,” said Roderick, smiling. “We waited as long as possible; on account of her mother’s death, and for other reasons; and then we married. A right and wise and prudent marriage, as I think a true love marriage always is,” he added, pointedly, for he felt his sister was listening to' every word he said. And he knew that old Mrs. Grierson was one to whom everybody told everything, though even scandal, passing through the alembic of her sweet .nature, came out harmless; she was noted for never having been heard to say an ill word of anybody. “You are right,” she answered; and her eyes, placid with long and patiently borne sorrow—she was a childless widow—rested kindly on the young bride. “By her face I should say that Mrs. Jardine was one of those rare women who are in the world but not of it”

“How well you read her. I thought you would,” ? cried Roderick, warmly. “If ever there was a saintly creature born But I am her husband, and ought not to speak.” “Who is to speak for us if not our husbands, I should like to know?” said young Mrs. Grierson. “And when there are actually three brides present By the bye, Mrs. Thomson, I did not know till a few minutes ago that it was your own sister-in-law I was inviting you to meet; but I shall learn the ins and outs of Richerden people in time. You and your brother must have married within a few weeks of one another.” “No, some months,” said Roderick, with his eyes firmly fixed on his plate. Bella, with some word or two, turned back again to her next neighbor, with whom she had been gayly conversing all dinner-time. So the difficulty passed, seemingly unnoticed by everybody. When the ladies rose, and he was forced to let Silence pass him without a warning or explanatory word, catching only the bright smile which showed she was at ease and happy, because underneath this outside show was the sweet inner reality that they two were everything to one another, Roderick vexed himself with conjectures as to what was happening in the drawingroom, and blamed himself for what now seemed the moral cowardice of

letting his young wife drop ignorantly tato the very midst of her foes. So absorbed was he with these thoughts that he quite started when a slap on the back roused him to the consciousness of his new brother-in-law, Mr. Alexander Thomson. “Didn’t see you till this minute. Very odd—my wife never told me we should meet you here. And was that your wife?—the uncommon nice girl that sat beside Grierson? Phew!” with a slight whistle; then confidentially, “the women are all fools, we know. Old lady cuts up rough still? Never mind; what’s the odds, so long as you’re happy? Glad to meet you again, my boy. When are you coming to see us?” Had it been possible to frame a speech more calculated than another to set every nerve tingling in Roderick’s frame, or touch to the quick his pride, his sensitiveness, his strong family feeling, these words of Mr. Thomson would have accomplished it He had forcibly to say to himself that they were well meant, and to shut his eyes in an agony of brotherly pity to the rapidly reddening face, thickening speech, and always coarse manners of the person—you could not say gentleman—whom Bella had chosen to marry before he could bring himself to reply. Even then it was as briefly as possible. “Thank you. We have only just arrived at Richerden, and are going to Blackball as soon as possible.” “But we shall see you before we go. Bella will be delighted, and if she isn’t I shall; and I hope I’m master in my own house. Depend upon it,” dropping his hand heavily upon the table, and looking round with a triumphant gleam in his fishy eyes, “the one thing a husband should try for from the very first is to be master in his own house.” “If he can be he will be without need to say a word about it; and if he can’t be, why, it’s no good trying.” The laugh went round at this naive reply of young Grierson’s,but Roderick never said a word. And when the gentlemen fell into gentlemen’s talk, politics and so on, though he liked it, having been long enough absent from England to feel an interest in all that was going on there, his mind continually wandered not only to his wife, whose happiness he knew he made, and felt it was in his power to make, but to the sister who had thrown away her own happiness, and over whose lot, be it good or ill, he had no longer the smallest influence.

|TO BE CONTINUED. I

POOR MARKSMANSHIP.

Firing In Both Army and Nivy Less Ao < urate Than Formerly. The training of naval artillerists has, in recent years, b en given a good deal of attention, and no end of powder and sh t has been expended in target practice designed to serve a more telling purpose in actual warfare should the otca-ion present itself. It voild seen, thereto e, that the floating equipments ot naval powers of today ought to give good accounts of themselves in p int cf n arks r.anship if called into acti n, th ugh, according to Cas-ier’s Magazine, it would be presunptu us to undertake to feresha :o v p.ssibe results. If, on the other han!, past e p rience counts for anything, the e would seem to havj been a notable decline in accuracy in naval gunnery, growing with successive improvem nts in naval architect ire and naval armament. It was estimated some yea s ago, fro n data furaished by target i ractice at sea, that a heavy gun must be discharged fifty times to make < ne effective hit. The old smoothbo es were credited with killing a man by the discharge of thh gun s weight in shot: in other words, three tons of 32-pounder shot was required for the purpose. Actual service test with modern high-power guns, however-guns weighing twelve tons —has, within the past ten or twelve years, shown that it t ok about sixteen tons of pro.ectiles to ac omplish the same thing. It is interesting to note from what statistics are available that the introduction litied muskets into the armies has had a somewhat simi ar result. The oldtime muskets, it is said, killed a man by firing at him his own weight in lead b Hets, but the n odern rifle in the hands of the average soldier, so it has been figured out. does not effect a fatality until it has discharged tvice the n an’s weight in lead. Both here, as ell as in naval shooting, therefore, there has been shown to be an important demand for greater skill and care. Whether this has been met in anv measure, future hostilities only will tell.

Sowing Plants with Gunpowder Alexander Nasmyth, the landscape painter, was a man fruitful in expedients. To his mind, the fact that a thing could not be done in the ordinary manner was no leason why it should be given up. His son relates the following interesting example ol his ingenuity: The Duke of Athol, says he, consulted him as to some improvements which he desired to make in his woodland scenery near Dunkeld. Among other things, a certain reeky crag needed to be planted with trees, to re’lieve the grim barrenness of its appearance. The question was how to do it, a* it was impossible for anv man to climb the crag in order to set seed or plants in the clefts of the rock. A hap y idea struck my father. Having observed in front of the castlo a pair of small cannon, used for firing salutes on great days, it occurred to him to turn them to account. A tinsmith in the village was ordered to make a number of canisters with covers. The canisters were filled with all sorts of suitable tree seeds. The cannon was loaded and the canisters were fired up aya'nst the high face of the rock. They burst and ‘ scattered the teed in all directions. Some years after, when my father revisited the place, he was delighted to find that his scheme of planting bv artillery had proved sue essful: the trees were flourishing in all the recesses of the cliff. Beer is more dangerous than whisky. That is the verdict of the Scientific American, which sets forth that the use of beer is found to prodi ce a species of degeneration of all the organs; profound and decent!, e fatty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestion and perversion of functional activities, local inflammation of both liver and kidneys, are constantly present. A slight injury, a severe cold, or a shock to the body or the mind, will commonly provoke acute diseases ending fatally in a beer drinker. Book sewing machines, to do the work of fastening together the sheets of which a book is composed, were introduced in 1872. Before that time all books were sewed by hand. The book sewing machine reduced the cost about one-halt

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Rake for Clearing Off the Corn Stub-ble-Neat Design for an Ice House— Fifty-five Experiment Stations in the United States. Clearing the Corn Stnbble. The neaf farmer who loves to see his fields clean and free from trash that Is unsightly (and it may be said that whatever is thus disagreeable Is equally undesirable in other ways) always objects to the appearance of the cut corn stubs in the land in which the oats are sown as the first of the spring crops. They are not only unpleasant to look at, but they are in the way of good culture of the land. The Illustration, from the American Agriculturist, shown an implement for gathering this rubbish and getting rid of It so as to turn

RAKE FOR CLEARING CORN STUBBLE.

it to immediate good use. A bar of strong oak timber six Inches wide and three thick has a tongue fitted into it in the usual way. and is furnished with a number of curved teeth made of halfinch steel bar. The teeth are sharpened so that they take fast hold of the stubs below the surface of the ground and tear them out, and also gather them as they pull them out of the soil. As a load is collected, the rake Is lifted by a pair of handles fastened to the bar. The bar may be made as long or short as may be thought proper. Farming at the Stations. From the Kansas State Board of Agriculture comes a very Important and exhaustive summary of the methods and ways of feeding wheat and low-priced grains to animals. At a time when many farmers are feeding wheat, and others considering the advisability of doing the same, this report is of special value. The report covers detailed experiences of farmers all over the country, and the conclusion is that farmers are justified in feeding their animals wheat when so cheap, and that despite some unfavorable reports the practice {is a g<?nerai thing is wise. In many localities it is the only profitable disposition of the low-priced grain this year that can be made, and when wisely and intelligently fed It makes money for the farmer. All reserves of low-priced grain should be thus disposed of rather than sending it to market at a positive loss, which is frequently the case. From abroad come the reported results of experiments with sugar beets that should be of value to those engagaged in tills industry in this country. At the Halle Experiment Station, where everything relating to beet sugar cultivation is carefully studied, it has been demonstrated in recent experiments that kainet tends to increase the sugar contents of the beets, while nitrate of soda has the opposite effect of redueng the amount. It is said that the beets get sufficient soda from the kainet, and the potash which they especially need is then readily absorbed.—Germantown Telegraph. Mandarin Ducks. These are among the most beautiful domestic aquatic fowls and as the name indicates they are of Chinese origin. They are very highly prized on account of the beauty of their plumage and numerous good qualities. A few have been domesticated and kept ns IWts. Like all other flying ducks, It has a small body and its feathers are of many colors. The crest of the drake droops on the neck, but he has power to raise it at will. The sides of the head are of a whitish corn or canary color and the under feathers around the neck

PAIR OF MANDARIN DUCKS.

of a rich chestnut The breast is light red, the back a light brown and the under part white. The fan feathers of the wings are chestnut with brilliant green tips and four bands over the shoulder black and white. The bill is crimson and the legs pink. The female is a strong constrast to the male and is half gray and brown. These ducks are easily tamed, and though the males are sometimes quarrelsome when first confined, they soon accept the situation. Shoeing Horses. The feet of the horse should receive special attention. No two horses require shoes alike. Ignorant blacksmiths, who know how to make a shoe and drive in a nail, but who know nothing of the structure of the hoof, destroy or injure more horses than all other causes combined. The frog is cut away, the hoof is burned, and the rasp is freely used where it should not even touch the hoof. This is a very important matter to those owning horses. Horse-shoeing is now a science. When to Sell. A potato grower of long experience, discussing the question of whether it was better to sell or hold'the crop says: “My opinion is that it is undoubtedly best to sell at 50c per bushel at digging time, even if one were assured of double the price four months after storing. Handling, shrinkage and decay in four months usually reduce the amount stored about one-third, and I have never found out when to Market a well-grown crop.” A Look Ahead. The windmill and the brook water wheel are yet to be harnessed for eleei tricity, and the grain threshed, the wood ! sawed, feed cut, water pumped, house lighted and heated without extra cost

The water power on or near every farm will transmit Its force over a wire to every field and building, and will save untold labor. Experiment Stations. There are, not including branches, fifty-four experiment stations in the United States, forty-nine of which receive the Federal appropriation. In 1893 the stations received $950,073, of which $705,000 came from the National Government, the remainder from State governments, private individuals, fees for fertilizing analyses, sales of farm products, a’nd ’other sources. In addition, the office of experiment stations at Washington has an appropriation of $25,000. There were 532 persons employed. 298 bulletins issued, and forty-eight annual reports. The act of Congress making appropriations for the stations for the year ending June 30, 1895, provided for the first time for the sui>erviston of the station expenditures by United States authorities. Administration of the funds is left, as before, to State authorities, but a statement of how they are expended must be made to the Federal officers.

Hedge Fences ns Windbreakers. Land is much cheaper in this country than in Europe. Almost everywhere the outcry against hedge fences is that they cost too much to trim, and that they waste too much land. This depends largely on how the hedge is managed. A hedge allowed to grow at will may well exhaust the soil of moisture at least for a considerable distance either’ side of It. But if kept closely pruned every year the hedge roots will not extend far. Besides, a close hedge breaks the force of winds and holds the snow from blowing. This makes the soil where the snow has been molster than it would otherwise be. Storms and winds are more violent in this country than they usually are in Europe. The hedge fence Is an important protection against the blowing away of rich surface soil wherever the soil is light. It may even pay as a windbreak in locations where it is not needed to restrain stock from Injuring the crops. Design for an Ice House. Many small farm Ice houses have to stand out by themselves, and are thus exposed to the full effect of tlie sun’s rays. These falling directly upon the roof cause a good deal of heat to be generated within, to the.consequent loss of ice. The Illustration shows an Ice house with two roofs, with an air space between, which will very greatly obviate this trouble. Such an extra roof can easily be placed upon a small building, to the saving of no small amount of

ICE HOUSE.

Ice during the heat of summer. Every farm should be equipped with a wellfilled ice house, for ice Is a necessity, not a luxury. There are many now ideas in harvesting, storing and using Ice nowadays. Look to the Quality. That quality adds more to the profit than prices may be demonstrated almost every day by a visit to the market. Recently a lot of cattle averaging over 1,500 pounds each sold for SO.IO per 100 pounds, or 2c per pound more than the regular prices In Chicago, equivalent to S3O gain on each steer, as well as the advantage derived from the heavy-weights. Notes. Farmer Gibson, near Avona, Pa., has raised a family of thirteen squashes on one vine, the smallest of which weighed 117 and the largest 141% pounds. The corn fodder should now be gotten out of the fields while the weather permits. Every day’s exposure deteriorates Its quality and renders It less palatable to stock. Vicious cows should not be retained, as they are liable to do harm to the attendants or to the other members of the herd. They are at all times a source of danger. In 1889 Kentucky raised nearly onehalf of the tobacco grown in this country, the amount raised by that State being 283,306,000 pounds, on 323,409 acres, the product being valued at $21,247,000. The cost of production governs the profit and. not the prices received. Extravagance in feeding, waste of valuable food, and the use of stock that does not produce above the average, are the obstacles which entail losses. Skimmed milk or buttermilk answers as well for young pigs as the whole milk, especially if ground oats and ground wheat are added to the milk, so as to make a thin mush. With warm quarters, such food will make the pigs grow rapidly. When the Japanese wish to send grapes to distant friends they pack them in boxes of arrowroot. Light and air are thus effectually shut out, and the delicate bloom is also even though the fruit has been transported thousands of miles. A mess of cooked turnips given once a day will be found excellent in increasing the growth of young animals. They do not contain any great proportlon of nutrition; being mostly water, but they promote the appetite and serve a dietary purpose, being a change from the usual dry food. Drainage in winter saves plants from being thrown out by the frost. Whenever it can be done, a furrow should be opened with the plow to drain off water to the nearest ditch. This work will require but a few hqurs, and It will be of great benefit. It answers well where small fruits are grown. It has been demonstrated, says an Eastern paper, that tlie feeding of ! wheat is just what the farmers should have done long ago. Farmers who had intended to discard wheat now believe that It pays to grow it for stock. It is considered superior to all other foods, especially If ground or cracked.

CHILDREN’S COLUMN,

A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. Something that Will Interest the Jurenll* Member* of Every Household—Quaint Antlom and Bright Saying* of Many Cut* and Cunrbg Children.

A Caller. A little caller has arrived In coat of spotted fur, A cosy corner by the fire She asks with pleasant purr. Most neat she is and most complete Her suit from head to toe— She really is the daintiest Of any one I know. She gently steps about the room, Her ways are sweet and mild.

Her manner might a model be For many a little child. To rug, or couch, or easy chair, Miss Pussy shall be free; I'll treat my pretty visitor Like other company, As I would like to have her »A’t Considerate, mid nil that, If Pussy were a little girl And I a little cat. KlngWinter. Now in his crystal palace, Far in the frozen North, King Winter blows his bugle, And sends his couriers forth! They rush, a mighty nrmy, In fleecy garments dressed, And every hill and valley They claim from East to West, They hang their icy pennons On shrub and bush and tree; They spread a snowy carpet Far as the eye can see. And under this soft carpet The flowers will sleep till spring; So let us warmly welcome The snowflakes and their king. f— Youth's Companion.

An Easy Way of Painting.

Here Is an easy way of painting, which any child can try. Buy 5 cents’ worth of spirits of nitre, pour a little in a saucer, and soak It in a piece of white linen. Take the leaf of any plant you fancy, lay it on the piece of wet linen, and put It between the leaves of a book, with a sheet of paper to receive the Impression. Put a weight on the book and leave it for a few days. When opened you will find a perfect print of ihe leaf, both In shape and color, and the leaf Itself will have become quite pale, all the tints being gone. In using any drugs for any experiments rerneluber that the bottles should bo kept tightly corked, and standing, when not in use, on some high shelf, quite out of the reach of the poking little fingers of a baby brother or sister. In trying this experiment don’t leave any of the nitre In the saucer after wetting the linen; pour any that may remain back into the bottle. Uses for Horse Chestnuts. Cut with a sharp knife a hole about a quarter of an inch in diameter. Cut out the meat in little pieces and shake out the hole. By holding the nut against the lower lip and blowing Into the hole, a whistle of an amazing power can be produced. By boring a small hole into one side and stopping It with the finger, a kind of trill can be performed with some kind of nuts. By fastening several whistles of different pitch on a strip of wood a tune can be played on them. By hollowing a nut, leaving a hole at the top about half an Inch in diameter and the same size at the bottom, cutting holes for eyes, nose and mouth and illuminated with a small candle, a grotesque jack-o'-lantern can be made. A face Is cut upon the side of a large chestnut, lifting a portion of the shell for eye-lids, and cutting the lips to represent teeth. A little bit of red paper is stuck in for a tongue. A napkin Is then placed over the top of a tumbler so as to form a depression. In this the head is placed. The sides of the napkin ate then grasped by the hand on the outside of the glass, and by moving it slightly the head rolls about in the anjysing w-ay. A little hat or feather makes the head still more comical. This performed with an orange is a sight never to be forgotten. Cut out the eyes so as to show white, raise a triangular flap for a nose, thrust a short stick Into thenut, and dress as n doll. It makes a particularly good China boy If a cue Is stuck on, and a cross- piece, i*> put or. for arms. By gouging a quarter-inch hole with a knife, and sticking the nut on the end of a pliable wand or rod about four feet long, and swinging the rod with a free-arm movement, the nut is thrown off and goes an Incredible distance.—Harper’s Young People. When a person is hysterical oftentimes a portion of the body has absolutely no feeling.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS CF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbor* are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death*—Accident* and Crimes—Pare tonal Pointers About ludlanlaiu. Minor State Items. Bedford stone quarries are closing for the winter. Christian Weiler, aged 57, of Goshen, dropped dead. Jacob Schlenkkb hung himself in his bam at BrookvilleColumbia rifles, Anderson’s militia company, will reorganize. The comer stone of the new Court House at Winamac has been laid. The Johnson County school teachers arc talking of a professional library. Wheat swindlers are getting in their work on farmers near Newport. Millersburg people rejoice that cigarettes cannot lx 1 purchased there. Gentry Giles, 75, was accidentally shot and killed at Rookport, by his son. CAMPBELLsnrito has increased the liquor license from SIOO to $l5O per There are 10,000 pensioners In Clark County and they receive annually about $144,000. The big anti-trust distillery at Terra Haute has been sold to a New York syndicate. The town of Bremen is wild over the finding of a gold nugget the size of a pea in a sand bank near that place. A passenger train ran into a runaway team near Cohimbus, killing both horses and demolishing the wagon. A new oolitic stone company has been capitalized at Bloomington for $1,000,000. Tlie new company has already secured options on two largo quarries. South Bend fair stockholders have elected new directors. The present debt will be paid and a fair will be held next year. Wabash merchants are working against the establishment of free mail delivery, claiming that It will depopulate the streets and ruin business. At South Bend, recently, a small boy fell in front of a Lake Shore engine. The locomotive passed over him, but he was so thin “it never touched him. The 2-year-old son of John Williams of Azalia, upset u cup of hot grease upon its body, burning himself so severely as to cause his death noon afterward.

MAi iiLXisTs- working in the Princeton Jail left some tools inside the jail. Ed. Thompson and Win. McKinney, prisoners, took tlie tools and made their escape. A Fort Wayne woman, on leaving her home for n shopping tour, hid her Jewelry mid pocketbook containing S2O in the rag bug. She forgot all about tlie valuables when she sold the bug to u rag dealer tlie next day for a few cents. William Van Zant and Finnan Applegate were hunting near Fortville, when Applegate’s gun was accidently discharged, the contents striking Van Zant under the right eye, killing him instantly. Van Zant was 20 and Applegate 18 years old. W. W. Stalling, guard of the State Prison South, was attacked by William Flower, a life-time convict, and struck over tlie head with an iron bar, inflicting u serious wound. Tlie cut is several Inches long. The guard was taking an obstinate prisoner by the name of Baffert liefprethe warden for some iiiisdenicunor, when Flower, who is a eellnuite of Italfert’s, made the assault. Flower is a United States prisoner. An outrage was recently perpetrated in Washington Township, in the southern part of Shelby County. A few evenings ago, while preparing to retire, Itev.Samuel Hawkins noticed, n strange light shining from the windows of the church next door to Ids house. On entering tlie building he was almost suffocated with the smell of coal oil and smoke. He hurried to the stove and found the handsome pulpit Bible and tlie song books of the church saturated with oil and slowly burning. Rev. J. 8. Nelson, a prominent Lutheran, and pastor of a Fort Wayne charge, was given a church trial nt North Manchester, on the charge of heresy. Rev. Nelson recently wrote a book entitled, “Baptism Forever Settled, or the Water Line Obliterated,” in which he derides tho necessity of water baptism In any form. The case was tried before sixteen ministers, all of whom voted to deprive him of all ministerial functions pending a final decision by the Synod, which will meet next September. Fob years La Porte County lias sought to aid In the extermination of the destructive groundhog or woodchuck by paying a bounty for every scalp brought to tho County Auditor. Thousands or dollars were annually paid out in tills manner. Tills county, bordering on Michigan, persons in that State have taken advantage of this bounty and shipped in hundreds of the _ scalps and received ' tlon. Tlie County Commissioners learned of the fraud and at once withdrew the bounty entirely. A few weeks ago It was reported that a quantity of coal had been unearthed near Williamsburg, Wayne County, on the farm of James Cranor, and the subject is now receiving further attention. 'Die coal han been found to lie combustible, and a number of competent experts pronounced it the genuine bituminous variety. Mr. Cranor lias made sufficient research to satisfy him that there is a large quantity of coal beneath liis farm, and he announces his intention of pushing the matter still further. Iron and silver ore are also said to have been found near there. Patents have been granted residents of Indiana as follows: Joshua A. Hadley, assignor of one-half to T. C. Smith, Brazil, stove pipe fastener; John F. Harnberger, Lawrenceburg, device for steaming coffee, tea, ec.; Edward Keating, Terre Haute, span or arch; Edward Keating, Terre Haute, girder for truss bridges; Edwardß. Kirby, Terre Haute, car coupling; William M. Six, Westfield,, train time indicators; Alfred Weed, assignor to Arcade file works, Anderson, machine forstrippingfile blank; William N. Whitely, assignor to C. A. Kitts, Muncie, hay tedder. Mb. John Him leu of Seymour, accicentally shot his 8-year-old daughter Rosa witii a flobert gun. Mr. Hinder was shooting at English sparrows, and fired toward the grape arbor, iff which his daughter was at play. The ball was cut out of the calf of tlie leg by Dr. Casey. While out limiting near Rockville, Clarence . IlaylD accidentally shot his cousin, Clifford Cook, who lives at Logansport. Tlie discharge of shot entered Cook’s right jaw. The boys were aged 17 and 18 repectively. Clarence' Hays lives at Terre Haute and is the son of George Hays, conductor on the Terre Haute and Logansport Railroad. A ten million cubic feet per day natural gas well was completed north of Anderson. The gas escaped with a roar that could be heard for several miles, and it was with great difficulty that it wa< capped. Last week an 8,000,000 cubic fee<. per day well was completed. ■’> Charlev Lewis, aged diet a ith an accident at Connersville that max prove fatal. While the 5:40 west-bound.train on the C.. 11. & D. was crossing a trestle over the hydraulic he Jell from the platform of a car thirty feet to the ground below. His left shoulder, left hip, left leg, and the lower part of his spine xfrere badly injured.' Lewis'makes his home at Kansas City, but ... was going from Connersville to Indianapolis.